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The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle

Read by Mark Leder


Émile Zola


Florent, an escaped political prisoner, finds shelter with his half-brother Quenu, and his wife Lisa Quenu (a Macquart). They get him a job…

The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Maquart Cycle

Read by Mark Leder


Émile Zola


The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are irreparably impacted by the arrival of a suspicious cleric, Abbe Fauja…

Bible (WNT) NT 13-14: 1 & 2 Thessalonians

Read by Mark Penfold


Weymouth New Testamenttranslated Byrichard Francis Weymouth and Weymouth New Testament


These are the letters of the Apostle Paul to the fellowship at Thessalonica. Both letters cover a variety of subjects, including proper con…

Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)

Read by Mark Leder


George Eliot


The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder

The Breaking Point

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shor…

The Vanishing Man

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


R. Austin Freeman


A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in wh…

Mr. Standfast

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


John Buchan


This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World Wa…

At the Villa Rose

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


A. E. W. Mason


Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a va…

Doctor Thorne

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Anthony Trollope


Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…

Dangerous Days

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…

The Ambassadors

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American ab…

Ravensdene Court

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


J. S. Fletcher


Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

The Witness for the Defence

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


A. E. W. Mason


Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? …

In the Mayor's Parlour

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


J. S. Fletcher


“Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owne…

The American

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …

Tales of Men and Ghosts

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Edith Wharton


Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and …

Running Water

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


A. E. W. Mason


Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…

The Aspern Papers

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

The Problem of China

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Bertrand Russell


In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…

The Descent of Man and Other Stories

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Edith Wharton


This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtshi…

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